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#1 Zinix

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Posted 19 October 2013 - 06:03 PM

 

 

WASHINGTON — The United States plans to give more than $1.5 billion in assistance to Pakistan for programs that had been blocked because of tension between the two nations over events including the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan, American officials said Saturday.

 

The decision to release the money, expected to be discussed when President Obama welcomes the Pakistani prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, to the White House on Wednesday, was confirmed by the State Department and Congressional officials.

The White House has set a warm tone for the Obama-Sharif session, officially stating that the meeting would highlight the “resilience of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship” and further cooperation on trade and economic development, regional stability and the fight against extremism.

For all the good will that the Obama administration is seeking to generate through this package, relations between the countries are still dictated by tensions over the C.I.A.-operated drone program. Mr. Sharif’s government has repeatedly condemned American drone strikes that have occurred in Pakistan’s tribal belt since his administration began in June, despite assurances from American officials that the strikes were killing few civilians.

Another point of contention has been the future of Afghanistan after the withdrawal of American combat troops in 2014. American officials believe that Pakistan can play a key role in efforts to draw the Afghan Taliban into peace talks, yet remain suspicious of the Pakistani military’s links to certain militant factions such as the Haqqani network, which has carried out many attacks on Western and Afghan troops inside Afghanistan.

Marie Harf, a State Department spokeswoman, said the renewed aid was “part of a long process of restarting security assistance cooperation after implementation was slowed during the bilateral challenges of 2011 and 2012.”

The relationship with Pakistan struck a low point in 2011, when a C.I.A. contractor shot and killed two Pakistanis in Lahore, the Navy SEAL team killed Bin Laden in Abbottabad and an errant American airstrike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border.

American military assistance had been frozen since the Bin Laden killing, in May 2011. At the peak of tension between the two nations, Pakistan blocked American and NATO supplies from crossing in and out of Afghanistan, causing them to pile up at the border and creating logistical difficulties for the shrinking war effort and the withdrawal of troops.

Relations have been gradually improving since then. Pakistan reopened the NATO supply routes in 2012, after the Obama administration apologized for the 2011 airstrike.

The official notifications from the State Department to Congress, required to release the funds, were sent during several months over the summer, long before the visit of Mr. Sharif was planned. The decision to release the money was previously reported on Saturday by The Associated Press.

“U.S. security assistance continues to build the counterinsurgency and counterterrorism capabilities of Pakistan’s security forces, which is critical to countering violence in the western border regions,” Ms. Harf said in an e-mail.

She added that civilian aid had “continued uninterrupted.” Civilian aid, she said, had “delivered real results on the issues most important to Prime Minister Sharif and all Pakistanis: energy, education, and economic growth.”

The United States provides about $2 billion in annual security aid, roughly half of which goes to reimburse Pakistan for conducting military operations to fight terrorism.

Declan Walsh contributed reporting from London.

 

 

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Pretty nice of him.


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#2 meitantei_conan

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Posted 19 October 2013 - 06:45 PM

do you guys even have that much money to give away? 



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Posted 19 October 2013 - 06:49 PM

do you guys even have that much money to give away? 

No, but China's always willing to let us borrow money from them.


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#4 Occult Satanist

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Posted 19 October 2013 - 07:04 PM

yes lets give away money that doesnt exist in our wallets :)


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Posted 19 October 2013 - 07:06 PM

Meanwhile, the US is still in debt and nothing has been solved.



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Posted 19 October 2013 - 07:28 PM

Because our Government didn't just shutdown and we didn't almost hit the debt ceiling.



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Posted 19 October 2013 - 07:44 PM

its nice of him to reimburse for all the damage and try to help their economy since a lot of it was us lol, but its funny how we can while we are in huge debt.



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Posted 19 October 2013 - 07:59 PM

Oh yeah obama, Really smart of you.. Just put us another $1,500,000,000 in debt. No biggie right?

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Posted 19 October 2013 - 09:12 PM

wooooo


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Posted 19 October 2013 - 10:01 PM

Might as well at this point because its a drop in a bucket compared to the trillions and trillions we are in debt, and people wonder why I want to move to another country.



Might as well at this point because its a drop in a bucket compared to the trillions and trillions we are in debt, and people wonder why I want to move to another country.

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Posted 20 October 2013 - 04:17 AM

Oh yeah obama, Really smart of you.. Just put us another $1,500,000,000 in debt. No biggie right?

funny thing is, it hasn't even put a dint in their debt.


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Posted 20 October 2013 - 08:08 AM

do you guys even have that much money to give away? 

Nah. We're like in 16 trillion debt.


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Posted 20 October 2013 - 09:04 AM

funny thing is, it hasn't even put a dint in their debt.


The point is, he's just put another 1.5 billion in the dent. We are supposed to try and get out of the debt, not get further in.

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Posted 20 October 2013 - 11:00 AM

Am pretty sure  US government has a solution for debts



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Posted 20 October 2013 - 02:02 PM

worst president ever.



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Posted 20 October 2013 - 02:52 PM

If the republican party and Boehner's clowns didn't shutdown the government everything would be better but it is silly of Obama to do that.


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Posted 20 October 2013 - 03:29 PM

Am pretty sure  US government has a solution for debts

Damn you were born in 1998? Why do I suddenly feel so old 


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Posted 20 October 2013 - 03:37 PM

Damn you were born in 1998? Why do I suddenly feel so old 

Wait, your profile says you were born in 1993.  If you feel so old, try to imagine with it feels like being born in my Year Of Birth - 1982.


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Posted 20 October 2013 - 03:41 PM

Wait, your profile says you were born in 1993.  If you feel so old, try to imagine with it feels like being born in my Year Of Birth - 1982.

I've been told I act like an old man. 


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Posted 20 October 2013 - 08:06 PM

About time America starts paying their debts to other countries.
Maybe they'll fix the damage they did to Afghanistan and Iraq next, or Korea.

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